Showing posts with label addon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addon. Show all posts

Saturday, August 16, 2008

PicLens - stylish 3D picture browser for firefox

Firefox users cannot miss out on this great addon called PicLens or Cooliris. This addon made by Cooliris is a fullscreen 3D picture browser for many popular sites.
The addon installs a small 'Launch PicLens' button on the toolbar, when browsing pictures on supported sites the button gets highlighted. Clicking the button will open up a fullscreen window allowing to browse and search for pictures as seen below.

     

Currently PicLens supports searching pictures from Google, Amazon, YouTube, Flickr, Yahoo, deviantART, Photobucket, and smugmug. With YouTube you can watch and browse through videos too without the need to open a separate tab or window.
A new feature allows users to share photos with friends by email just by drag-n-drop.
The addon also supports browsing pictures from social networking sites such as Facebook's picture album. But the addon does not support browsing pictures in Orkut yet.

The latest PicLens version is 1.8.0 and can be downloaded from here. The addon is availabe for both windows and Mac users, with support for Internet Explorer too.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Firefox Adblock and Imeem flash player problem

The Imeem player does not load in Firefox when used with Adblock plugin. The Imeem player is a flash player and requires the Adobe Flash player plugin to be installed to be able to run.

After trying several fixes, installing and reinstalling the Adobe Flash player, I found that there is some issue with Adblock and Flash player. With Adblock enabled many flash sites fail to load, seems to be some bug with Adblock addon.

Right now the only solution I can find is to disable the Adblock addon.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Use Internet Explorer inside Firefox with IE Tab

One of my favorite Firefox extension - IE Tab allows opening Internet Explorer (IE) only sites without the need for running IE separately. The addon uses the IE engine and displays sites right within firefox.

Using the addon is simple, the status bar contains an icon which displays the firefox icon, clicking it changes it to IE's icon and the current site in the tab reloads using IE's engine and everything works as it would work in IE but the other firefox functions and addons cannot be used at the same time. A link can also be opened in IE's engine by right-cliking and selecting "View Page in IE Tab"

There are also options which allows customization of context menu, creating filters to open sites in IE engine automatically.

IE Tab can be downloaded from Mozilla's site here. The addon is compatible with the latest Firefox version 3